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Immigration Law Expert Lenni Benson explores the fate of children who are brought to the US—either by a family member or a smuggler—and whether they should be forgiven their "illegal" […]
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Harvard Psychologist and Education Expert Howard Gardner explains the importance of targeting education outreach to the specific needs of individual communities.
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Farrow insists it is necessary for people to acknowledge and own up to our capacity to do terrible things to each other.
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Farrow, who has traveled extensively as an ambassador for child’s rights, confesses that she no longer cares about an acting career.
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Farrow, adoptive mother of fifteen, discusses how central a role adults can play in the lives of children.
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Other authors fret about the impact of the Web, but Augusten Burroughs "would not want to even be alive" without it.
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Something must have been in those cookies Emily Dickinson was baking, because she "seemed to have been in touch somehow with a lot more than she was in touch with."
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Augusten Burroughs has called humor the "spoonful of sugar" that relieves the bitterness of his work—sometimes. But does it come naturally?
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The author of "You Better Not Cry" didn't start writing till he was 24--when he did he quickly learned the importance of reading random, often "really bad" books.
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The "You Better Not Cry" author describes the holiday as a gem of happiness wrapped in a package of tragedy.
Tough guys don't cry. But during what's been called the "he-cession," they have plenty of reason to. As writer/journalist Reihan Salam explained to Big Think in an interview today, not only […]
My own presumptions about Pakistan did not prepare me for the sight of this, this, this, or any of Kate Brooks' other photos from Karachi's "fashion week" -- a glitzy […]
At the Monaco Media Forum lately, two competing business models for journalism were put forth by two industry leaders: Arianna Huffington of the Huffington Post and Mathias Dopfner, CEO of […]
A tiny pellet the size of a multi-vitamin could provide an endless supply of safe, clean energy - But is this unrealistic optimism?
Former governor Sarah Palin has gone after the Associated Press accusing them of “opposition research” for fact checking her forthcoming book.
The BBC talks to a man who spent 14-years on death row before new evidence led to his release from jail.
Doctors in Iraq are treating 15 times more chronic deformities in infants since the war – due possibly to toxic materials leftover from the fighting.
Building on the studies of Joseph-Louis Lagrange, a picture of coherent structures in fluids is emerging using advanced technologies.